An all consuming sinful addictive read!!!! Pam Godwin is an evil genius mastermind, I tell you. Seriously, Pam does not deliver your run of the mill standard cliche dark romance but she delivers stories that DEMANDS your full undivided attention. With her masterful and stunning prose, she lures readers into the proverbial rabbit hole where passion, revenge, loss, anger, desire, lust, hate, love, hope, and turmoil are thrown at the readers. These raw emotions are the driving force into what makes Disclaim an intense and powerful read.

“She needed to forget about him. Except she couldn’t. In the back of her fucked up mind, she looked forward to her next kill just so she’d have a reason to hear his voice again.”

Disclaim can be read as a standalone but I highly recommend and urge readers to read Deliver and Vanquish first in order to get full understanding and grasp of the previous characters and the motivations for the heroine. With that being said, let’s begin my review.

“It had been twelve years since he kissed a woman, and she’d been only a girl then, with gangly limbs and tiny breasts. Kissing her now blew away the memories. There was no more shyness, no restraint or inexperience… ”

Camila was seventeen years old when she was kidnapped and was forced to be a slave. Fast forward ten years later, the shackles that once bound her to a master and room haunts Camila in a different way that she never thought she could be free from. As a free woman, she is imprisoned with with one driving force. To kill those who are responsible in the human and sex trafficking.

“She didn’t just feel him between her legs. She felt him everywhere , ripping her apart and putting her back together in way that served him. But somehow, it served her, too. He kissed her, and she lost herself in the thirsty strokes of his tongue, the heat of his breaths, and the promise of his hunger. She kissed the boy who haunted her and the man who filled her with dread. And somewhere between the shadows of her past and her future, she surrendered.”

Camila is a woman with a mission. She wants the blood of those monsters who are part of the secret human trafficking ring. And if Camila has to go back into the slave auction in order to find the leader and so be it.

She’d been chained up, beat up, kicked down, and held in the dregs of her weakest point. But she never stopped fighting, never gave up. She’d mustered what little courage remained and chose to live, to learn, to hate and kill, to do whatever it took to not just overcome, but to evolve.

Matias was Camila’s only friend. He was more than a best friend. He was her lover. Her hope. Her salvation. But being separated for quite so many years, their friendship drifted apart. It is when Camila needs a favor to get rid of a body, she knows that she can call Matias to get rid of the body. So what happens when Camila finds herself being bought at the slave auction by the man that still haunts her body, soul and mind?

When Matias buys Camila and makes her his slave, she enters a dangerous world where friendship, passion, lust, love, and anger are blurred. Is Matias her savior or her demise? As Matias informs Camila that she is nothing but a slave bound by his rules, the submissive side of Camila reemerges. The shackles that had once bound Camila are now shackles of her heart as she struggles to keep her emotions in check.

“Shh. I know you’re scared .” He tucked their laced hands against her chest. “Because you’re a raping, slave-trading monster.”“Yes, but once you fall in love with a monster, you no longer fear them.”

His touch. His voice. His presence. Him. Matias. He was everything that she tried to run away from but she couldn’t. His power and dominance consumes her in such a fierce and intense way, that Camila finds herself bending to his way and his rules. His order is her obedience. His dominance is her fuel. His love is her hope. So can a man who claims to be a monster be everything that she was trying to run away from? Once bound to fear, will Camila discover she doesn’t want to be disclaim but owned?

“No one owns your soul. Yet. But a voluntary captive lives deep inside you, craving to be claimed, used, and fucked in every way imaginable.”

Disclaim is one of those dark reads that immediately holds you hostage right off the opening pages. Every detail, sound, blood, death, action, and raw emotions were a visceral symphony that helped shaped and mold this consuming book. Pam Godwin takes readers on a journey fueled with one objective only. The end of human slavery. This journey is not an easy feat, as Camila’s past and present collides in such a way that she is held bound to her fears, anger, and love for a man who has always held the key to her heart and freedom. As Pam intricately and innately layered this book with an onslaught and magnitude of darkness, grit, betrayal, deceit, duplicity, and Machiavellian characters, she slowly allows readers to go on that journey with Camila. The blind leading the blind. And as a result, readers will be surprised as a few surprising and unexpected twists are unraveled. All there is left to say, go read this chilling, haunting, and addictive read. Pam Godwin truly paints a literary masterpiece where every action, spoken word, and emotions are an integral part of the big picture or in this case, the story line. So be prepared to get shackled and held hostage in Disclaim.